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Most important thing: Keyboard navigation?
by max on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @15:17

Who else thinks that keyboard navigation is a very important topic where Konqueror (and Dolphin 0.x) have deficits?
Just navigating between directories, deleting files (focus jumps to the beginning of the directory), creating folders (new folder is *not* selected),... today has too many (usability) bugs.

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Re: Most important thing: Keyboard navigation?
by Paradox on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @18:27

This could be a great way for you to contribute to the KDE project! Not many people bother with keyboard navigation, so I guess is gets very little testing. Once eveything stabilizes a bit more why don't you download a snapshot and give dolphin some thorougher keyboard only testing and submit bugs? I'm sure it would be pretty easy to do and would make sure Dolphin is perfect for you in KDE 4.0!

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Re: Most important thing: Keyboard navigation?
by Marius on Friday 02/Mar/2007, @05:56

I agree, there are way to many keyboard related bugs in kde, probably half of the 30some bugs i have reported to kde have been keyboard navigation related.

E.g. hit alt+b (bookmarks menu), hit down until you have selected a folder, hit right and then left and finally the menu key (between alt gr and ctrl), then choose anything there, e.g. properties, notice how the dialog you get isn't the correct one, you are getting the dialog for the topmost item in the folder, not the folder itself.

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Re: Most important thing: Keyboard navigation?
by nick on Friday 02/Mar/2007, @08:49

i think that all [not object oriented] actions should be available through keyboard.

for example i've hidden kmail toolbar after learning all keys i need. (and i rarely use menubar as well)
another example: i execute apps by pressng Alt+F2, typing first few chars of the name and pressing enter (autocompletion can be enabled in the rmb-menu of any lineedit)
and of course amarok global shortcuts rule

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